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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Economic Life and Industries.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many of the Gikuyu live as squatters on farms on European land?
(a) 110,000,
(b) 95,000.
(c) 105,000.
(d) 75,000.

2. How does one say my or our mother in Gikuyu?
(a) Maba.
(b) Moobi.
(c) Mooli.
(d) Maito.

3. When the Europeans first came to Gikuyuland, how did the Gikuyu regard them?
(a) As interesting foreigners.
(b) As conquerors.
(c) As dangerous enemies.
(d) As lonely wanderers.

4. What is the approximate population of the Gikuyu country?
(a) One million.
(b) Two million.
(c) One and a half million.
(d) A half a million.

5. From whom did the Gikuyu buy land when they moved southward?
(a) The Ndorobo.
(b) The Masai.
(c) The Watusi.
(d) The pygmies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a Gikuyu woman call the parcel of land she is allowed to cultivate?

2. In what part of Kenya does the country of the Gikuyu lie?

3. What united people in Africa against Western influence, above all against Great Britain and the United States?

4. How many sheep or goats equal the value of one cow?

5. How does Mr. Kenyatta present the facts?

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